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Asked: 2026-05-13T08:52:24+00:00

The user entered the word éclair into the search box. Showing results 1 –

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The user entered the word

éclair

into the search box.

Showing results 1 - 10 of about 140 for �air.

Why does it show the weird question mark?
I’m using Django to display it:

Showing results 1 - 10 of about 140 for {{query|safe}}
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  1. Editorial Team

    It’s an encoding problem. Most likely your form or the output page is not UTF-8 encoded.

    This article is very good reading on the issue: The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)

    You need to check the encoding of

    • the HTML page where the user input the word
    • the HTML page you are using to output the word
    • the multi-byte ability of the functions you use to work with the string (though that probably isn’t a problem in Python)

    If the search is going to apply to a data base, you will need to check the encoding of the database connection, as well as the encoding of your tables and columns.

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